"Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up."

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Source : "What's Driving Pete Earley Crazy". Interview with Lizzie Simon, www.psychologytoday.com. March 18, 2010.

Pete Earley

#Giving Up Quotes #School Quotes #Character Quotes

“My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.”
“Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ...”
“The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.”

Source : Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.749, Simon and Schuster
“I am not a poor child, Lady Eleanor," Madelyne announced, letting her anger sound in her voice. "Duncan won't marry you. He won't sign the contracts. He'd have to give up his greatest treasure in order to marry you." "And what be that treasure?" Lady Eleanor inquired, her voice mild. "Why, I'm Duncan's greatest treasure. He'd be a fool to give me up," she added. "And even you must know that Duncan is anything but a fool.”
“When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.”

Source : Karl Rahner (1997). “The Need and the Blessing of Prayer”, p.1, Liturgical Press
“I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes. "I could kiss you!" Chubs cried. "Please don't!" I gasp out, feeling his arms tighten around my ribs to the point of cracking them.”
“Why is meditation essential? By meditating we take our garbage out.”
“Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.”

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